Bose Sleep Buds | 2018 Review

Sleep is one of the most important factors when it comes to health and overall wellness, Bose has recognized this and created a product that for all intents and purposes helps improve your quality of sleep. The Bose Sleep Buds have created a brand new market segment that can either thrive or fail depending on the success of the Sleepbuds.

Bose is known for their excellent noise canceling headphones and has lightly implemented this technology in the Sleepbuds, Bose is calling it “noise-masking” and claim that it will mask all those annoying sounds like snoring, road noise or noisy neighbors that are keeping you from having a good nights sleep. The Sleepbuds don’t play any music from your favorite streaming service and only exist to help you get better sleep.

In today’s review I will be breaking down the Design, Comfort, Performance, and Price, to help you decide whether this “Luxury” item is worth your time and money.

Design

Bose has a reputation for making quality products and that carries over to the Sleepbuds, from the moment you open the box you are greeted with the buds inside their premium metal charging case. The design of the earbuds is focused on being as ergonomic and as comfortable as possible. Bose Sleepbuds are essentially True Wireless Earbuds with wing tips for a secure fit. There are no physical buttons on the buds and everything is controlled via the accompanying App on your phone, this makes for a very streamlined earbud.

The charging case is a thing of beauty, it is designed to keep the Sleepbuds secure while charging and doubles as a very handy carry case. The sliding lid is also very addictive and has a very satisfying feeling when you open and close the case. Everything about the buds and the case scream premium, as it should at this price point.

Comfort

When you pick up the buds you will instantly notice that they feel pretty underwhelming in hand but have a soft feel to them, Bose has focused on comfort first and the last thing you want is a couple of heavy hard earpieces in your ears at night. They include a couple of different ear tips to customize the fit to your ears, couple that with the wing tips and they sit very securely in your ears. The Sleep Buds are very slim and don’t protrude from your ears, this makes them comfortable even if you are a side sleeper.

On all accounts, the Sleepbuds are what all True Wireless Earbuds should aim to be, no doubt this design language will find its way onto other Bose’s earbuds in the future.

Performance

The performance of the Bose Sleepbuds is the most important segment in this entire review, after all, if the Sleepbuds don’t perform they are essentially a useless product because they aren’t actually capable of playing music from your phone as a backup. Luckily, by all accounts, these perform very well.

When you are ready to sleep all you have to do is insert the Sleepbuds and start up the accompanying App on your phone, the App controls every function of the Sleepbuds, without the App and a phone, the sleep buds are useless. Once you start up the App you can choose from 10 pre-loaded soothing sound loops, you can set volume and whether you want that volume to decrease after a certain time period, you can also set a wake-up alarm. Bose has specifically chosen the soothing sounds to relax the mind and body and allow you to drift off to sleep quicker and more efficiently, these work extremely well on me and with quick google, you will find out that most reviewers found the same thing.

Battery performance on these is also an area that Bose worked really hard on, you get 16 hours of battery life on the Sleepbuds once fully charged. The charging case acts as a dock for the Sleepbuds when you are finished with them in the morning and they also hold a full 16-hour charge in them. Depending on how much you sleep you have a good few days that you can take these on the road without worrying about packing the charge cable.

Price

Like all first gen devices, the Bose Sleepbuds are expensive, but, how much is too much for a good nights sleep? that is the question you need to ask yourself before making this purchase.

At the time of this review, you can pick up the Bose Sleepbuds from Amazon and Best buy for $249 USD

Summary

I will end this review with asking the same question I asked above, how much is too much to pay for a good nights sleep?

Bose have successfully created a new market segment that is solely dominated by them at this point in time, The Bose Sleepbuds do what they promise, they use their “Noise-Masking” capabilities and sleep-focused soothing sounds to deliver a product that helps you fall to sleep quicker and get more quality sleep. Sure there are white noise machines and phone Apps that promise similar results, but they fail to deliver at the consistency and quality results of the Bose Sleepbuds.

Disclaimer – I am not an insomniac so I don’t know if this product would help someone with this issue, My sleep was average and I wanted it to be better. I cannot speak about if this would help an insomniac due to not having the issue myself.

About The Author

Long story short I am a self-proclaimed Tech Head, I love almost anything with a smart feature and Google Assistant is my best friend. I run mobilemarv.com and I aim to be your one stop shop for anything Tech, Smart or Mobile

24 Comments

Hi Marvin,
Your range of products are great. This is the first time I heard of Noise Masking Ear Buds, the ear buds I know are for making sounds louder. I do not have a need for them, as I sleep okay, but will keep this in mind for future. Thanks your post gave me some new information.

Very informative! I don’t have insomnia either but if I did!, I would definitely pay the $249. I really love and need my sleep! I have purchased other products made by Bose so I know they must be of great quality… Thank you for your article!

Hi Marv
Great informative site haven’t heard about these so caught my attention..
Especially for those people out there who need to avoid the snoring next to partner syndrome ! Could be another angle for you ?

Hey!
I haven’t heard about Bose sleep buds before. I’m sleeping well so that might be the reason I haven’t known about these. But for the future I will keep these on my mind! Thanks for the great review! 🙂

Very professional looking site. I really like the affiliate disclosure. I have only been working on my site now for a couple of weeks but I look forward to when I have my site looking as good as yours.

Hi Marvin,
These look awesome. I’ve never seen them before and didn’t know that there was such a thing. I really wish I had these when I worked overnight shifts and had to sleep during the day. The most difficult thing was trying to sleep with all the noise from the road. I know these would have made all the difference. I am going to look into these as there’s always a potential I may go back to those shifts. The price seems a bit high but like you said, you can’t really put a price on quality sleep. Bose stuff is always great as well. Great review.

Bose! Just the name spells quality! However, even though it’s a Bose product, I am having a hard time to wrap my head around the fact that you can’t stream ordinary music or at least some kind of choice on what kind of “soothing” sounds it can play. At $250 I would really like some kind of sample of these “sounds” before buying it. I guess I have no sleep disorder and that is why I am hesitant.

They seem the perfect fit for sleeping though, and I love to put “my kind” of streaming music when I go to sleep and end up taking the earbuds off after a while because of discomfort when I sleep. I wonder if you know if they come in a regular Bluetooth format with the same noise canceling shape?

Hey Denis, thanks for the comment. They do offer you a choice in a few different sounds that you can select via the App. You can check out those sounds Here. Furthermore, the sounds they developed work with your brain to relax and put you in a sleep state quicker, a lot of science has gone into it to make these the best at one thing.. putting you too sleep

Great review. Sleep buds are something I might want to try but the price is a little steep for my budget. I might have to wait and see if the next round of buds gets cheaper. Is there a site I could go to and listen to some of the sound bites that come with the earbud app? It would be nice to know more about what sounds they offer and if it’s white noise like? Thanks for the information. I’m going to look into these further.

Hi Marv, great review. The sleep buds look awesome but pricey. In the summer season I work late shifts, sometimes not finishing work til 4am and maybe not sleeping til 5am. I’ve tried regular ear plugs to try and get sleep as the house wakes up around me but to be honest they just don’t do the job. So I’m seriously considering going for the sleep buds.

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